Robert Gérard, who joined the Caisse d’Epargne Fédérée de la Moselle in 1960 at the age of 17, rose to become the Director of this institution in 1973, the year he was awarded a Master’s degree in law by the University of Strasbourg. Appointed Chairman of the Management Board of the Caisse d’Epargne de Moselle in 1985, he worked in favor of the development of the French savings banks and, in 1992, was appointed Chairman of the Management Board of the new Caisse d’Epargne de Lorraine Nord. Reelected to this position in 1997 and 2000, he contributed to the merger of the two Lorraine savings banks in the summer of 2003, the year he retired from active life. Robert Guérard demonstrated the same commitment at the service of the savings banks in the various positions he held at a national level during his career with, in particular, his appointment to the Supervisory Board of the Centre National des Caisses d’Epargne (CENCEP) of which he was a member from its creation in 1983 until March 1992.

The Association for the History of Groupe Caisse d’Epargne has devoted one of its Cahiers pour l’histoire (history notebooks) to Robert Guérard, entitled A major figure from the Lorraine – forty years dedicated to the construction of Groupe Caisse d’Epargne, a work that makes it possible, through a series of interviews, to learn more about this man who devoted his entire professional life to the institution.